HeyJaredEverything We Kept, Everything I Carry
A repository of memories captured in many forms, and how I choose to write towards it. Here you will find essays from the archives with poems, photos, silly lil brain dump posts, videos, and experimental writing sprinkled throughout.
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Field Notes on Loving (opens the original)
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Though my understanding nature is a big strength of mine, I am no longer letting that negate the fact that people who do very much care for and love me have/will hurt me.And just because someone is going through really mucky, nasty, tough life shit does not undermine the hurt/neglect that is being bestowed upon me as a result. We are human. We get to live in the space between where we love and hurt some of the most important people in our lives. We hear them. Hold them softly. We apologize. We d
Hi, my name is Nancy, and I have OCD (opens the original)
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It’s 1:08 AM, the pillow is soaking wet, and I can’t breathe in or out of either of my nostrils. I hug my pillow tightly and bring the blanket above my head, a veil to hide my shame. Every night has looked like this for the past week. Tonight, the cassette playing in my head is loud and mangled, but somehow still repeating itself. It’s a harmony between self-soothing tappings that I am okay and the uncontrollable sob when I convince myself that everyone who loves me just hasn’t realized that the
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